"Minsk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in this campaign; nor was there a day passed without his receiving intelligence from France. When the retreat was begun, (after the burning of Moscow,) he had six lines of magazines in his rear; the 1st, at Smolensk, ten days' march from Moscow; those of the 2d line at Minsk and Wilna, eight marches from Smolensk; those of the 3d line at Kowno, Grodno, and Bialystok; those of the 4th line at Elbing, Marienwerder, Thorn, Plock, Modlin, and Warsaw; those of the 5th line at Dantzic, Bamberg, and Posen; those of the ...
— Elements of Military Art and Science • Henry Wager Halleck
... than two hundred and fifty leagues it offered but two points where he could halt and rest, the first Smolensk, the second Minsk. He had made those towns his two great depots, where immense ...
— The Two Great Retreats of History • George Grote
... in Minsk. Here the arguments which the opponents advanced in a passionate debate at a public meeting were of a utilitarian rather ...
— History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II • S.M. Dubnow
... Newcastle, the Earl of Rosebery, and the Lord Mayor of London, at the instance of Princess Bariatinsky, who is better known as the famous Russian actress, Madame Yavorska, is feeding between 4,000 and 7,000 refugees daily at Petrograd, Moscow, Minsk, and at several small towns close ...
— World's War Events, Vol. II • Various
... awaited him in Minsk. Here the arguments which the opponents advanced in a passionate debate at a public meeting were of a utilitarian rather than ...
— History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II • S.M. Dubnow |
